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I believe there is very little reason to assume the numbers are not accurate. Not only have their numbers been fairly accurate in previous conflicts, but also many US officials believe them to be accurate if not underreported.

It feels more like an Israeli attempt at using fog of war and the masses ignorance on the matter to soften the reaction and spread doubt about the real numbers. As this talking point was continously used by Israeli spokespersons even after US officials believed these numbers to be fairly accurate. I would be happy to be corrected, I wish the numbers are actually less, and would want this to be the reality.

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/u-s-officials-have-gro...

From my understanding their numbers have been fairly accurate throughout the years, do you have any specific examples of prior extreme discrepancies? (Because from what I followed, even the US believes those numbers to be accurate, but I would be happy to be corrected)

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/u-s-officials-have-gro...

Swan Atlantic has Israeli connections as well from the Wikipedia list. Clearly this list is being updated as info unfolds. Also the lack of a link on the Wikipedia page does not mean there is no link, and just as you missed Swan Atlantic (and I didn't even go through the full list), there can be other ships with Israeli connections that you didn't catch (or entries that were updated since the time you checked)

Just a reminder that Gaza faces the Mediterranean Sea too, but Israel does not allow any ship to go there. It doesn't allow them to create a port. Israel is effectively controlling what gets in and out of Gaza. Israel does surround Gaza, and for the part it doesn't "surround it" (Egypt), it has agreements with the Egyptian government on what goes in and out.

That's not what I said or believe. And regardless, the fact the intent of attempting to stop ships is missing from the article is abhorrent

Wouldn't justice be a cause for wars too? Even if energy was limitless or extremely cheap, this wouldn't mean people will stop being mean right? Something else will become too valuable and greed and other human traits will cause injustices and people will still fight to enforce/overthrow the injustice no?

Thank you for sharing! I'll hunt it down

It might be less about it carrying anything specific and more about who owns it or where its headed. This is part of an effort by the houthis to put pressure on Israel to allow humanitarian aid in (their declared reason at least)).

Most of the ships they target are either own fully or partially by Israeli companies, or are headed to Israeli ports

I'm really confused as to why no where in the article do they mention the intent of attacking the ships. As if the houthis in yemen are attacking ships because they like it or just because they "hate developed societies".

Their declared reason is to put pressure on Israel to allow humanitarian aid to Gaza at once. They target ships that have Israeli links or heading to Israeli ports. It can be seen as a form of treating Israel the way it's treating Gaza (as in Gaza is blockaded, so the houthis are trying to create a sea blockade from their region of control)

Could you link me the YouTube videos/articles in question? It happens to be my research area and I'm interested in knowing how big companies such as meta deal with multi-GPU systems

They are the main channel operating from Gaza, and their reputation is better than many western media channels, especially when it comes to this conflict. We wouldn't have seen many of the atrocities committed live by the IDF if it weren't for them.

In addition what they are claiming matches with previously known habits of the IDF, matches with deaths of Palestinian hostages that occurred in Israeli jails, so its not that unimaginable

Thats not completely true. By the time Hamas fired that rocket the time has already ended of the truce (7:00 am of that day), and Hamas was clear that it could not meet the extension criteria (brining out 10 more hostages from the category being exchanged (children and women)), it even proposed moving to another criteria (elderly), but Israel refused

Again watch your language and only claim what has been proved (rape has not). I do agree atrocities were committed tho, but to stay partial and critical in this assessment we must be clear with ourselves on what has been proven to have happened, and what didn't. For instance we know Israel is also responsible for a portion of the killing of Israeli civilians on the 7th of October. Many burned bodies for instance turned out to be Hamas operatives hit with hellfire missiles. So let's be careful

Look you seem to be throwing around alot of assumptions, including saying "Jews as a whole is more civilized in their attacks". I think it's really dangerous to say "Jews" are the ones attacking, in fact personally I think it's antisemitic to say that. The Israeli military is. Sayig "Jews" is risking their reputation to cover up for Israeli military actions and allows the Israeli military to hide behind anti-Semitism whenever critism comes their way

So I will not indulge with a discussion with you further as it does not seem you are genuine, but I'll note to the readers that you did not address the contradiction of using the same "manipulative" statements you yourself critisied

I think further nuance needs to be added here. There is a difference between pictures of dead children that are shared as proof of atrocities, and pictures that are shared to garner sympathy

I doubt many would doubt a school shooting did kill children, maybe some would but not the majority. In this case I can see how sharing the pictures of dead children could produce manipulative outputs (regardless of intent), especially since few to no people doubt their deaths

Whereas when it comes to wars overseas, and one side is downplaying or downright denying the death of children, then here I think it's vital to examine the pictures

> We need to stop losing our minds or using "women and children" as excuses for doing the right thing

> "The context is a terror group raping and killing women, beheading children"

To be frank, aren't you doing the same thing? Or even maybe a worse thing? At least we have pictures for the deaths of women and children in Gaza, we do not have evidence for beheading babies or raping women. I do agree atrocities have been committed, but the way they are framed is vital, and it seems throwing around claims of extreme barbarism when there are no valid proofs of it is quite manipulative itself

Not to mention your username is quite concerning given what we know about Israeli propaganda units